From The Monitor, April 01, 2003
Letters
April 1, 2003
Ten reasons Kaguta needs a 'fifth' term
I would like to congratulate those in the politburo of the Movement's National Executive Committee who in their ultimate wisdom have decided that President Museveni deserves a fifth term in office, after having served only four consecutive five-year terms.
President Museveni's bid for another term in office should be supported for the following 10 reasons:
- So that the war in the North can spread to the other regions of the country.
-Uganda can graduate from being the eleventh most corrupt country in the world to being the undisputed No.1.
-The UPDF (and its proxy armies) can completely exhaust the minerals, timber and other resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
-The Akazu (the presidential inner circle) can amass enough wealth and property to guarantee that they eradicate poverty from within their families.
-The personality cult around President Museveni can be consolidated, with everything further centralised in the Office of the President.
-The president can appoint corrupt, incompetent and inefficient Cabinet ministers who will be immune from censure by Parliament.
-The president can dissolve Parliament whenever it displeases him.
-So that the UPDF can take 50 percent of all the budgetary resources of the country.
-Makerere University can grant President Museveni an honorary degree.
-Maj. Muhoozi Kainerugaba will be old enough to succeed him in 2011.
I recall that somewhere in the history of the NRM, 10 points was all it took for them to guarantee a "fundamental change" in the system of governance. A fifth term will certainly achieve that.
J. Oloka-Onyango,
Makerere University.
